Look up: scheme

1. scheme
   [Noun] A plan for work or action, usually to achieve something.
   Example: The council sent us a leaflet about a new scheme for rubbish collection in our area.
   See also: pilot scheme
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2. scheme
   [n] - an elaborate and systematic plan of action 2. [v] - devise a system or form a scheme for 3. [v] - form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
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3. scheme
   scheme:structure used to describe the data organization in a database Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • of painting,the total paint coasting,consisting of two or more single coats,usually different Category: The chemical industry
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4. Scheme
   Scheme noun [ Latin schema a rhetorical figure, a shape, figure, manner, Greek ..., ..., form, shape, outline, plan, from ..., ..., to have or hold, to hold out, sustain, check, stop; confer Sanskrit sah to be victorious, to endure, to hold o...
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5. Scheme
   Scheme transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Schemed ; present participle & verbal noun Scheming .] To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot. « That wicked...
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6. Scheme
   Scheme intransitive verb To form a scheme or schemes.
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7. scheme
   1. A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system. 'The appearance and outward scheme of things.' (Locke) 'Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity.' (Atterbury) 'Arguments . . . Sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy.' ...
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8. scheme
   strategy noun an elaborate and systematic plan of action
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9. Scheme
   • (n.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event. • (v. i.) To form a scheme or schemes. • (n.) A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system. • (v. t.) To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to p...
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10. scheme
    (from the article `rhetoric`) ...discourse, the local colour or details, or to the structure, the shape of the total argument. Ancient rhetoricians made a functional distinction ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/41
    
    
11. Scheme
    (programming) (Originally 'Schemer', by analogy with Planner and Conniver). A small, uniform Lisp dialect with clean semantics, developed initially by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman in 1975. Scheme uses applicative order reduction and lexical scope. It treats both functions and continuations as fi...
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12. scheme
    figure of speech that varies the order and sound of words. Examples include alliteration, assonance, chiasmus, and rhyme.
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13. scheme
    
    • an elaborate and systematic plan of action
    • a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
    • an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
    
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14. scheme
    Type: Term Pronunciation: skēm Synonyms: schema1
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio
    
    
15. Scheme
    (programming language) `Scheme` is one of the two main dialects of the programming language Lisp. Unlike Common Lisp, the other main dialect, Scheme follows a minimalist design philosophy specifying a small standard core with powerful tools for language extension. Its compactness and elegance...
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16. Scheme
    (mathematics) In mathematics, a `scheme` is an important concept connecting the fields of algebraic geometry, commutative algebra and number theory. Schemes were introduced by Alexander Grothendieck so as to broaden the notion of algebraic variety; some consider schemes to be the basic object...
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17. Scheme
    (linguistics) In linguistics, `scheme` is a figure of speech that changes the normal arrangement of words in a sentence`s structure. A good example of a playwright who is notorious for his use of schemes and tropes is William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caes...
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